The UK, US, Canada and Australia have invested £61m on an ambitious, novel clean energy and climate change research programme.

Global Centers is being delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in conjunction with like-minded international funders and led by the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The initiative is funding international, interdisciplinary collaborative research on use-inspired themes in clean energy and climate change.

The Global Centers will conduct research to tackle hard-to-decarbonise sectors across the UK economy, accelerating transformative socioeconomic and technological innovation and driving the energy transition to reach the UK’s net-zero targets by 2050.


George Freeman MP, Minister of State and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said: “From the use of engineering biology to decarbonise our economies to agritech breakthroughs that will help us manage precious water resources, science and innovation will be critical to tackling the enormous challenges posed by climate change, while seizing the opportunities that open up as we pivot to new, cleaner energy.”
The UK investment of £18m is across four projects in track one of the Global Centers programme. Funding is provided through UKRI’s Building a Green Future fund and International Science Partnerships Fund.

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada, and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, are also investing in the centres.

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